Professor Jiguang WANG receives 2024/25 RGC CRF Collaborative Research Project Grant
The Research Grants Council (RGC) has announced the results of the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2024/25.
Congratulations to Prof. Jiguang WANG, Padma Harilela Associate Professor of Life Science (Division of Life Science (LIFS) and Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering (CBE)) for being a recipient of the Collaborative Research Project Grant (CRPG) under the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2024/25.
Led by Prof. WANG, with HKUST co-investigators Prof. Shuhuai YAO (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and CBE), Prof. Kai LIU (LIFS and CBE), and Prof. Can YANG (Department of Mathematics (MATH)), their project titled "Characterization and Molecular Mechanisms of IDH Mutant Mesenchymal Glioma: Implications for Diagnosis and Targeted Therapies", has received HKD 6 million from RGC. The project will run from 30 June 2025 to 29 June 2028, marking a significant step forward in glioma research.
The CRF supports multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary projects in order to encourage more research groups to engage in innovative and high-quality cross-disciplinary / cross-institutional collaborations.
